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• Jules Bastin was named the commanding officer of Belgian Legion. ww2dbase [Jules Bastin | CPC]
• 6 Japanese fighters intercepted an air convoy from China to Lashio, Burma; one Japanese fighter was shot down by the escorting P-40 fighters. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Escort carriers USS Nassau and USS Altamaha escorted by cruisers USS St. Louis and HMS Achilles with destroyers USS Nicholas, USS McCalla, USS McCall, and USS Craven arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [McCall | Nicholas | St. Louis | | DS]

• Comandante Cappellini detected an aircraft with Metox radar detector in the Atlantic Ocean at 0030 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. At 2020 hours, she made another Metox contact and again submerged. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• 7 B-17 bombers of US 43rd Bomb Group attacked Rabaul, New Britain at 0530 hours, sinking small cargo ship Tomiura Maru. The pilots reported 21 warships gathering in Simpson Harbor. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• The convoy with destroyer USS Saufley in the screen arrived off Guadalcanal and began offloading. Saufley screened the unloading. ww2dbase [Saufley | Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands | DS]

• Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a Blenheim aircraft over Meiktila, Burma, his 13th victory. ww2dbase [Satoru Anabuki | Meiktila | CPC]

• Submarine USS Thresher continued tracking the 3,000-ton Japanese merchant ship Hachian Maru detected the night before. Thresher fired 85 rounds from her 5-inch deck gun causing the transport ship to go dead in the water. Thresher fired one additional torpedo from point-blank range resulting in the ship sinking in about 15 minutes. ww2dbase [Thresher | Java Sea | DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the German submarine facilities at Lorient, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Lorient | DS]

• S-36 departed Mariveles bay, Philippine Islands for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [S-36 | Mariveles, Bataan | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-51 departed Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. To the west, German submarine U-354 detected Allied convoy JW-51B; Admiral Erich Raeder ordered Lützow, Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers to sortie from Altafjord, Norway to intercept. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

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